Zen
You know FL weather right now is perfect riding weather but the sweet curves are not really here unless you do a track day at Jennings , Moroso , Homestead Miami Speedway I am not sure if the last two day any track days in the winter month or not In addition .I do not think you would like Miami too much the west coast is so much calmer than the east coast .Also you better speak Spanish or you will feel that you are in a foreign country getting lost there sucks for a guy like me

Zen
You know FL weather right now is perfect riding weather but the sweet curves are not really here unless you do a track day at Jennings , Moroso , Homestead Miami Speedway I am not sure if the last two day any in the winter month or not In addition .I do not think you would like Miami too much the west coast is so much calmer than the east coast .Also you better speak Spanish or you will feel that you are in a foreign country getting lost there sucks for a guy like me

Lol it's true Spanish would help, I live in miami. You get the track down here=).

Well after being stationed in Socal for 5yrs the only thing that really stuck with me was the beaches and weather. The rest I could do without, I did something similar to what you did. I packed up my clothes mailed them home, put some stuff in a backpack and rode my CBR600RR from CA to MN to be back with family.

The ride across country was probably the coolest thing I have done, riding through CO was AWESOME!!! I have thought about moving to CO with one of my buddies who I used to be in the military with but I want to leave MN in March and go somewhere where I can ride year round.

One thing I will advise is try to find people in each state you ride through and see if you can meet up with people along the way to your destination. Once I got past the first day and a half on the bike I was starting to get a little crazy like when you have been up for too long and the dumbest things start to make you laugh lol.

I know how you feel though, I really dislike socal and I wouldn't be going there if it weren't for my GF. Once her lease is up hopefully her and I can move up north where the tracks are closer, the people are more realistic and the air is cleaner.

Good luck with your decision, this is what I will say.....life is too short to live in one place for your whole life and retirement is too late! After coming back to family I have nothing in common with them because I have been deployed around the world, seen things nobody has or very few have and to think I could be satisfied with my life in one place is just plain crazzzzzzyyyyyy!!!!!!